Russian S-400 Triumf air defense systems to be supplied to 12 missile regiments by 2020

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Tuesday, September
30, 2014 09:42 AM

Russian
S-400 Triumf air defense systems to be supplied to 12 missile regiments
by 2020

New
S-400 Triumf air defense systems will be supplied to 12 missile regiments
of Russia’s Aerospace Defence Forces by 2020, their spokesperson,
Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin said on Monday, September 29. Until the end
of this year, four S-400 regiments will be protecting Moscow and the Central
Industrial District of Russia, he said.

At
present, three regiments have S-400 systems and the rest are armed with
S-300 systems. Future plans call for upgrading Moscow’s missile
defense to bring air defense and missile defense systems under a single
command to repel all possible attacks.

The united command will cover 25 regions and three republics. Radar stations
used by air defense units can detect targets as far as 600 kilometers
and an altitude of up to 40 kilometers.

Another regiment in the Moscow region will adopt Russia’s newest
S-400
air defence systems this autumn. “The fourth air defense
regiment will receive a new set of S-400 systems at the Kapustin Yar training
range in September or October, conduct initial live fire training and,
after redeployment to the Moscow region, go on combat duty,”
Aerospace Defense Forces Commander, Major General Andrei Demin said earlier
this month.

Three regiments in the Moscow region have already been armed with the
S-400 systems. The first S-400 battalion went on combat duty in Elektrostal,
Moscow region, in the summer of 2007 and was joined by another one in
2009.

The second regiment armed with S-400 systems went on combat duty in 2011,
followed by the third one in 2014.

Supplies of new air defense systems to the 4th Air Force and Air Defence
Command in the District began in 2009. Since then, more than 60 pieces
of new military hardware have been delivered and put into service.

The Triumf system is twice as effective as the previous systems. It can
attack 10 targets with up to 20 missiles. The S-400 uses 3 different missiles
to cover its entire performance envelope. The Russian Ministry of Defense
said that the S-400 was intended for the Russian Armed Forces only and
would not be exported to other countries.